Internationalization during navigation

• US 9,683,862 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2015
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nishikawa, Hirofumi, Shioya, Tomohiro, Sugano, Kei, Watanabe, Shoichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US14/833,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20170059348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for internationalization of real-world features during navigation. The method includes receiving a request for navigation to a landmark in a particular language. The method further includes retrieving keywords from a database associated with the landmark, and scoring the keywords based on their level of recognition to a user. The highest ranked keywords are then sent to the user to navigate to the landmark.

Claims

1. A computer program product for internationalization of navigation, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive, from a requestor, a request comprising a target destination and a native language;

program instructions to retrieve, from a database, a plurality of keywords, wherein the plurality of keywords are associated with the native language and a destination language;

program instructions to score each of the plurality of keywords;

program instructions to determine whether a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds a threshold value;

program instructions to, responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds the threshold value, translate the plurality of keywords from the destination language to the native language;

program instructions to send the translated plurality of keywords to the requestor, wherein the translated plurality of keywords are used to navigate to the target destination;

program instructions to navigate to the target destination using GPS signals and the translated plurality of keywords;

program instructions to receive location information associated with a destination;

program instructions to retrieve social media data associated with the destination, based on a native language of a user;

program instructions to extract a set of keywords associated with the destination;

program instructions to translate the set of keywords associated with the destination to the native language; and

program instructions to store the translated set of keywords associated with the destination, in a database.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

program instructions to, responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords does not exceed the threshold value, retrieve from the plurality of keywords, a set of abstract keywords in the destination language; and

program instructions to translate the set of abstract keywords in the destination language to the native language, wherein the translated set of abstract keywords are used to navigate to the target destination.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

program instructions to retrieve, from the database, a set of keywords related to the native language of the user;

program instructions to retrieve, from the database, a set of criteria associated with the set of keywords related to the native language of the user; and

program instructions to calculate a navigation value for the set of keywords, wherein the navigation value is based in part on the native language of the user.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions to score each of the plurality of keywords comprise:

program instructions to retrieve a level of recognition of the plurality of keywords and a level of relevance of the plurality of keywords, wherein the level of recognition of the plurality of keywords is based in part on the native language of a user; and

program instructions to generate a list of results, wherein each keyword from the list of results is associated with a recognition value score.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

program instructions to rank the translated plurality of keywords, based on an order of familiarity to a user; and

program instructions to implement a set of high ranked keywords as navigation keywords to navigate to the target destination.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

program instructions to translate a plurality of visual features into a plurality of corresponding keywords, based in part on map information and social media data.

7. A computer system for internationalization of navigation, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive, from a requestor, a request comprising a target destination and a native language;

program instructions to retrieve, from a database, a plurality of keywords, wherein the plurality of keywords are associated with the native language and a destination language;

program instructions to score each of the plurality of keywords;

program instructions to determine whether a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds a threshold value;

program instructions to, responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds the threshold value, translate the plurality of keywords from the destination language to the native language;

program instructions to send the translated plurality of keywords to the requestor, wherein the translated plurality of keywords are used to navigate to the target destination;

program instructions to navigate to the target destination using GPS signals and the translated plurality of keywords;

program instructions to receive location information associated with a destination;

program instructions to retrieve social media data associated with the destination, based on a native language of a user;

program instructions to extract a set of keywords associated with the destination;

program instructions to translate the set of keywords associated with the destination to the native language; and

program instructions to store the translated set of keywords associated with the destination, in a database.

8. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising:

program instructions to, responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords does not exceed the threshold value, retrieve from the plurality of keywords, a set of abstract keywords in the destination language; and

program instructions to translate the set of abstract keywords in the destination language to the native language, wherein the translated set of abstract keywords are used to navigate to the target destination.

9. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising:

program instructions to retrieve, from the database, a set of keywords related to the native language of the user;

program instructions to retrieve, from the database, a set of criteria associated with the set of keywords related to the native language of the user; and

program instructions to calculate a navigation value for the set of keywords, wherein the navigation value is based in part on the native language of the user.

10. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the program instructions to score each of the plurality of keywords comprise:

program instructions to retrieve a level of recognition of the plurality of keywords and a level of relevance of the plurality of keywords, wherein the level of recognition of the plurality of keywords is based in part on the native language of a user; and

program instructions to generate a list of results, wherein each keyword from the list of results is associated with a recognition value score.

11. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising:

program instructions to rank the translated plurality of keywords, based on an order of familiarity to a user; and

program instructions to implement a set of high ranked keywords as navigation keywords to navigate to the target destination.